Meet The Bear - a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask, Can you tell me why I am a cat, please? Like many intellectuals, The Bear would prefer a life of quiet solitude with plenty of time to gaze forlornly into space and contemplate society's ills. Unfortunately he is destined to spend his days surrounded by felines of a significantly lower IQ....

5 out of 5 stars

Funny and quirky

By
david
on
19-03-15

The January Man

A Year of Walking Britain

By:
Christopher Somerville

Narrated by:
Christopher Somerville

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
35

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. After teenage rifts it was walking that brought us closer as father and son, and this ghost of Dad has been walking at my elbow since his death, as I have ruminated on his great love of walking, his prodigious need to do it - and how and why I walk myself.

5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful!

By
Hari
on
17-05-17

The Last Wilderness

A Journey into Silence

By:
Neil Ansell

Narrated by:
Peter Noble

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
46

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
46

The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil Ansell takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands. He illustrates the impact of being alone as part of nature rather than outside it. As a counterpoint, Neil Ansell also writes of the changes in the landscape and how his hearing loss affects his relationship with nature as the calls of the birds he knows so well become silent to him.

5 out of 5 stars

Absolute Gem

By
Rodrigo
on
20-09-18

From Source to Sea

Notes from a 215 Mile Walk Along the River Thames

By:
Tom Chesshyre

Narrated by:
David Thorpe

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps. He's walking the length of the river from the Cotswolds to the North Sea - a winding journey of over 200 miles. Join him for an illuminating stroll past meadows, churches, palaces, country (and council) estates, factories and dockyards.

5 out of 5 stars

Very enjoyable romp along The Thames

By
John Hayes
on
04-02-19

The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places

By:
Neil Oliver

Narrated by:
Neil Oliver

Length: 14 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
84

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
80

Story

5 out of 5 stars
78

The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places is Neil’s very personal account of what makes these islands so special, told through the places that have witnessed the unfolding of our history. Beginning with footprints made in the sand by humankind’s earliest ancestors, he takes us via Romans and Vikings and the flowering of religion through civil war, industrial revolution and two world wars. From windswept headlands to battlefields, ancient trees to magnificent cathedrals, each of his destinations is a place where, somehow, the spirit of the past seems to linger.

5 out of 5 stars

Poet, Storyteller, Historian, Philosopher.

By
Paul
on
08-11-18

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World

By:
Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by:
Mike Grady

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
486

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
435

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
430

How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known. In
The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.

5 out of 5 stars

Well worth a listen

By
Amazon Customer
on
11-10-16

The Good, The Bad, and The Furry

Life with the World's Most Melancholy Cat and Other Whiskery Friends

By:
Tom Cox

Narrated by:
Mark Meadows

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
72

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
65

Story

4 out of 5 stars
63

Meet The Bear - a cat who carries the weight of the world on his furry shoulders, and whose wise, owl-like eyes seem to ask, Can you tell me why I am a cat, please? Like many intellectuals, The Bear would prefer a life of quiet solitude with plenty of time to gaze forlornly into space and contemplate society's ills. Unfortunately he is destined to spend his days surrounded by felines of a significantly lower IQ....

5 out of 5 stars

Funny and quirky

By
david
on
19-03-15

The January Man

A Year of Walking Britain

By:
Christopher Somerville

Narrated by:
Christopher Somerville

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
35

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
32

In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. After teenage rifts it was walking that brought us closer as father and son, and this ghost of Dad has been walking at my elbow since his death, as I have ruminated on his great love of walking, his prodigious need to do it - and how and why I walk myself.

5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful!

By
Hari
on
17-05-17

The Last Wilderness

A Journey into Silence

By:
Neil Ansell

Narrated by:
Peter Noble

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
50

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
46

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
46

The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil Ansell takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands. He illustrates the impact of being alone as part of nature rather than outside it. As a counterpoint, Neil Ansell also writes of the changes in the landscape and how his hearing loss affects his relationship with nature as the calls of the birds he knows so well become silent to him.

5 out of 5 stars

Absolute Gem

By
Rodrigo
on
20-09-18

From Source to Sea

Notes from a 215 Mile Walk Along the River Thames

By:
Tom Chesshyre

Narrated by:
David Thorpe

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11

Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps. He's walking the length of the river from the Cotswolds to the North Sea - a winding journey of over 200 miles. Join him for an illuminating stroll past meadows, churches, palaces, country (and council) estates, factories and dockyards.

5 out of 5 stars

Very enjoyable romp along The Thames

By
John Hayes
on
04-02-19

The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places

By:
Neil Oliver

Narrated by:
Neil Oliver

Length: 14 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
84

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
80

Story

5 out of 5 stars
78

The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places is Neil’s very personal account of what makes these islands so special, told through the places that have witnessed the unfolding of our history. Beginning with footprints made in the sand by humankind’s earliest ancestors, he takes us via Romans and Vikings and the flowering of religion through civil war, industrial revolution and two world wars. From windswept headlands to battlefields, ancient trees to magnificent cathedrals, each of his destinations is a place where, somehow, the spirit of the past seems to linger.

5 out of 5 stars

Poet, Storyteller, Historian, Philosopher.

By
Paul
on
08-11-18

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World

By:
Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by:
Mike Grady

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
486

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
435

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
430

How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known. In
The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.

5 out of 5 stars

Well worth a listen

By
Amazon Customer
on
11-10-16

Still Water

The Deep Life of the Pond

By:
John Lewis-Stempel

Narrated by:
Leighton Pugh

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
5

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
5

Story

5 out of 5 stars
5

The pond. Nothing in the countryside is more humble or more valuable. It’s the moorhen’s reedy home, the frog’s ancient breeding place, the kill zone of the beautiful dragonfly. More than a hundred rare and threatened fauna and flora depend on it. Written in gorgeous prose, Still Water tells the seasonal story of the wild animals and plants that live in and around the pond, from the mayfly larvae in the mud to the patrolling bats in the night sky above.

The Wood

The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood

By:
John Lewis-Stempel

Narrated by:
Leighton Pugh

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
145

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
132

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
132

For four years John Lewis-Stempel managed the wood. He coppiced the trees and raised cows and pigs who roamed free there. This is the diary of the last year, by which time he had come to know it from the bottom of its beech roots to the tip of its oaks and to know all the animals that lived there - the fox, the pheasants, the wood mice, the tawny owl - and where the best bluebells grew. For many fauna and flora, woods like Cockshutt are the last refuge. It proves a sanctuary for John, too.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent book,

By
Ellen
on
02-11-18

Thinking on My Feet

The Small Joy of Putting One Foot in Front of Another

By:
Kate Humble

Narrated by:
Kate Humble

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
42

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
42

Thinking on My Feet is an inspiring journal of walks divided into seasonal sections. Discover the joys and benefits of walking, encounters with the natural and urban world, with the familiar and strange, with animals, people and events. Kate charts her feelings and impressions throughout, capturing the perspectives that only a journey on foot allows. Find out what makes you curious, what makes something memorable.

5 out of 5 stars

Truly inspirational

By
Anonymous User
on
21-01-19

Just off for a Walk

By:
Stephen Reynolds

Narrated by:
Geoff Cummings

Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
29

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
27

What happens when a 37-year-old office worker, who exercises marginally less than the average cheese sandwich, decides to walk 630 miles of challenging coastline in one go? Will he go on an epic voyage of self-discovery...or just get really knackered? Find out the answers to these important questions, and many more, by joining him on a grand adventure that takes in 26,719 steps, 921 stiles, 302 bridges, 91,000 feet of climbing and descending, one seal, zero basking sharks, lots of chips and one overweight, oversize backpack.

5 out of 5 stars

Rival for Bill Bryson

By
Book Worm
on
14-03-19

Wild Signs and Star Paths

The Keys to Our Lost Sixth Sense

By:
Tristan Gooley

Narrated by:
Peter Noble

Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
63

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
56

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
55

Tristan Gooley shows how it is possible to achieve a level of outdoors awareness that will enable you to sense direction from stars and plants, forecast weather from woodland sounds and predict the next action of an animal from its body language - instantly. Although once common, this now rare awareness would be labelled by many as a 'sixth sense'. We have become so distanced from this way of experiencing our environment that it may initially seem hard to believe that it is possible, but Tristan Gooley uses a collection of 'keys' to show how everyone can develop this ability and enjoy the outdoors in an exciting way - one that is both new and ancient.

5 out of 5 stars

This has changed my life

By
Amazon Customer
on
30-10-18

The Lost Words

By:
Robert Macfarlane,
Jackie Morris

Narrated by:
Guy Garvey,
Edith Bowman,
Benjamin Zephaniah,
and others

Length: 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
96

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
90

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
90

All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent the natural world of childhood, a rich landscape of discovery and imagination that is fading from children's minds. The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of the poetry of nature words and the living glory of our distinctive British countryside. With acrostic spell-poems by peerless wordsmith Robert Macfarlane, this enchanting audiobook captures the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages.

5 out of 5 stars

Pure magic!

By
Anonymous User
on
23-02-19

Underland

By:
Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by:
Roy McMillan

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
20

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
18

Story

5 out of 5 stars
18

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future.

5 out of 5 stars

Epic. Sobering. Wonderful.

By
Sararara
on
13-05-19

The Salt Path

By:
Raynor Winn

Narrated by:
Anne Reid

Length: 11 hrs and 1 min

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
802

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
722

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
725

Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, via Devon and Cornwall. They have almost no money for food or shelter and must carry only the essentials for survival on their backs as they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea and sky.

5 out of 5 stars

4.5

By
Kim
on
02-06-18

Wonderland

A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day

By:
Brett Westwood,
Stephen Moss

Narrated by:
Brett Westwood,
Stephen Moss

Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
47

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
44

A life-affirming nature diary - with something amazing to see and experience on every day of the year - from award-winning authors and Springwatch experts Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss. From blackbirds, beavers and beetles to tawny owls, natterjack toads and lemon slugs. Every day of the year, winter or summer, in every corner of the British Isles, there's plenty to see if you know where - and how - to look.

5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic day by day journey

By
Miss Pope
on
21-10-18

Ancient Wonderings

Journeys into Prehistoric Britain

By:
James Canton

Narrated by:
James Canton

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
35

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
31

Story

4 out of 5 stars
31

Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you. Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road.

4 out of 5 stars

Ups and Downs like the paths he walks

By
mazc
on
07-01-18

The Old Ways

A Journey on Foot

By:
Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by:
Roy McMillan

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
250

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
222

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
221

In
The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads, and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes crisscrossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, of pilgrimage and ritual, and of song lines and their singers. Above all this is a book about people and place.

4 out of 5 stars

Not easy but worth the effort.

By
Amazon Customer
on
04-04-13

Watling Street

By:
John Higgs

Narrated by:
John Higgs

Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
44

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
38

Story

4 out of 5 stars
38

A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track became a road. It connected the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of the Welsh island of Anglesey, across a land that was first called Albion then Britain, Mercia and eventually England and Wales. Armies from Rome arrived and straightened this 444 kilometres of meandering track, which in the Dark Ages gained the name Watling Street.

4 out of 5 stars

An Entertaining Listen

By
smtfhw
on
16-07-18

Summary

21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection of essays, but a bit of all six. It contains owls, badgers, ponies, beavers, otters, bats, bees, scarecrows, dogs, ghosts and yes, even a few cats. What emerges from this are themes that are broader, bigger and more definitive.

Another great book from Tom Cox

Any additional comments?

My New Year resolution was to stop listening to the Today programme in the morning as it just wound me up for the rest of the day. This audiobook was the perfect antidote. Gentle tales of walks, folklore and family. Having Tom reading it brought the book to life, particularly the LOUD DAD sections. Didn’t want it to end.

Adored every moment

Simply adored every moment of this and will certainly listen again.
Tom speaks with such humour and warmth about nature, the British countryside, family, friends ...and cats.
It's the equivalent of, in audio book from, of a long walk in the country followed by curling up in your favourite armchair with hot chocolate, cheese on toast, a dog at your feet and a cat on your lap.

Hugely enjoyable

I loved reading the book, and hearing it in Tom Cox's voice somehow adds another layer of enjoyment to it. Recommended if you like any or all of: walking, nature, the sort of conversations that start on one topic and manage to cover lots of seemingly unrelated issues, lynx-related hypothetical mild peril.

Best book of the 21st Century

I’m sad, no the book didn’t make me sad. I’m sad now I’ve finished the book as I feel like I’ve lost a good friend.If you like nature, random stories, people falling out of trees and sheep then this is the book for you!

Very comforting to the soul!

Walking around my Cornish landscape and suddenly laughing out loud as I listened, I really enjoyed this book. The ways of the cats therein were useful context for my own relationship with my cat Merlin, and the other cats. Didn't realise when I subsequently purchased The Good, The Bad and The Furry, that it wasn't also read by Tom himself. Please, please, please can they all be read by Tom in the future.

Loved it!

Love, love, loved this funny and educated tale of life in Devon & Norfolk. Tom Cox’s narration is funny & heartwarming, can’t wait to hear more from him. Makes me want to up & walk alone for miles & to get another cat too!

Like listening to a friend

Loved listening to this especially having lived in Nottingham and Eastwood. Brought back happy memories.

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Shalaana

22-07-18

Excellent book

I’ve just finished this, and I’m sad that it’s done. Wonderful stories of trees, walks, cats, swimming, family, and finding one’s place in the world.

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5 out of 5 stars

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julie

12-05-19

Absolutely endearing

Tom is insightful, illustrative, and paints an intricately detailed picture of the natural world he adores. His writing communicates how the landscape influences his thinking, while also giving an excellent sales pitch for getting out and experiencing the outdoors in general. If you live somewhere that the great outdoors doesn’t color your world much, this book is a good primer as to why others love it so much. Likewise, if you spend time bonding with the landscape, climates, and wildlife where you live, you’ll find yourself nodding in agreement with tom quite often. Witty, humorous, and honest in his expression of personal points of view - does not disappoint. I find myself upping the level of my own mental narrative after reading one of tom’s descriptive and insightful books, too.

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

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5 out of 5 stars

allison

02-04-19

a wonderful collection of thoughts and musings.

listening to Tom stories is like sitting down to a cup of tea with a good friend and catching up. listening was delightful and endearing, and I will definitely be listening to this one over and over again.

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